Saat ini, perilaku merokok semakin merata, bukan hanya perilaku orang de-wasa, tetapi juga telah menjadi gaya hidup para remaja. Penelitian ini ber-tujuan menilai hubungan antara tingkat pengetahuan, interaksi kelompoksebaya, interaksi keluarga, iklan rokok, dan sikap dengan perilaku merokokremaja di kota Makassar. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain studi obser-vasional cross sectional. Teknik sampling menggunakan multistage randomsampling dengan jumlah sampel 471 responden. Data dianalisis dengan ujikai kuadrat, koefisien phi (f) dengan α = 0,05. Responden perokok sekitar25,3%, sementara responden yang berpengetahuan rendah 16,6%, ber-interaksi negatif dengan kelompok sebaya 24,2%, berinteraksi negatif de-ngan keluarga 47,8%, respons negatif iklan rokok 4,9%, dan sikap negatif3,4%. Uji kai kuadrat menunjukkan ada hubungan antara interaksi kelom-pok sebaya (nilai p = 0,000), interaksi keluarga (nilai p = 0,010), iklan rokok(nilai p = 0,000), dan sikap merokok (nilai p = 0,001) dengan perilakumerokok remaja. Tidak ada hubungan antara tingkat pengetahuan denganperilaku merokok remaja (nilai p = 0,056). Kelompok sebaya dan iklan rokokberpengaruh paling bermakna pada perilaku merokok remaja. Sekolahperlu dilibatkan lebih intensif pada upaya pencegahan dan intervensi peri-laku merokok pada anak dan remaja.Nowadays, Smoking not only the behavior of adults, but it has become away of life for most of teenagers. The study aimed to analyze the correla-tion between knowledge, peer group interaction, family interaction, cigaretteadvertisement, and attitude of smoking between smoking behavior amongteenagers in Makassar city. Observational cross sectional study was per-formed in this study. There were 471 respondents selected by applyingmultistage random sampling. Data was analyzed with chi square test, phicoefficient (f) with α = 0.05. Number of smokers were 25.3% of respon-dents, meanwhile, low knowledge of respondents were 16.6%, a negativeinteraction within a peer group of 24.2%, a negative interaction with family47.8%, the negative response to cigarette advertising 4.9%, and a negativeattitude 3.4%. Chi square test showed there was a correlation betweenpeer group interaction (p value = 0.000), family interaction (p value = 0.010),cigarette advertisement (p value = 0.000), and smoking attitude (p value =0,001), and smoking behavior of the teenagers. However, no correlationbetween the level of knowledge (p value = 0.056) and smoking behavioramong the teenagers. Peer group and cigarette advertisement most signif-icant affect smoking behavior of teenagers. It is recommended that schoolsneed to be involved to provide prevention and intervention on smokingbehavior of teenagers are more intensive. |